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Molecular and clinical heterogeneity of adult GM2 gangliosidosis.
Developmental neuroscience - 1 Jan 1991
Navon R
Abstract excerpt
Adult GM2 gangliosidosis is a rare autosomal recessive disease with widely varying neurological and psychiatric manifestations. It is caused by marked deficiency, but not total absence, of beta-hexosaminidase (Hex) A, due to a single base change in the alpha-subunit gene of Hex, resulting in a substitution of Ser for Gly at position 269 in the alpha-subunit of the enzyme. The same mutation was identified in all...
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